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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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Appointments with plants
In our ‘always on’ culture, poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett find a route away from screens – by following the ways of the trees and plants outside.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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A graveyard of plants for the people I love
Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.
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Pharmaco-Botanologia: or, An Alphabetical and Classical dissertation on all the British Indigenous and Garden Plants of the New London Dispensatory. In which Their Genera, Species, Characteristick and Distinctive Notes are Methodically described; the Botanical Terms of art explained; their Virtues, Uses, and Shop-Preparations declared. With many Curious and Useful Remarks from proper Observation. By Patrick Blair, M.D. of Boston in Lincolnshire, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Blair, Patrick, -1728.Date: MDCCXXIII-M.DCC.XXVIII [1723-1728]- Books
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Every man his own gardener, being a new and much more complete gardener's calendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden and Shrubbery, Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House, for every Month in the Year, but also ample Practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice. With complete Practical Directions for Forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers, and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole are added, Complete and Useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Tuberous-Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants, Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations, &c &c. With additional Systematic General Catalogues of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials and Biennials, and of Hot-House Plants; with general Explanations of their Nature and Culture. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his grace the duke of leeds) and John Abercrombie Author of the Universal Gardener and Botanist. Corrected, and greatly Enlarged, with many considerable material New Additions, and numerous very essential Improvements, in a more full, comprehensive, and general Manner in every Department of the Work, than in any former Edition.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1797- Books
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A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening: being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A Very Curious work: Containing many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilizing the most Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M. D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with Remarks: and Adorn'd with Cuts. The whole revised and Compared with the Original, together with a Preface, confirming this New Method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Agricola, Georg Andreas, 1672-1738.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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The horse-Hoing husbandry; compleat in four parts: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein, Among many Curious and Useful Improvements, the following are treated of; Viz. 1. Of Roots. 2. Of Leaves. 3. Of Food of Plants. 4. Of Pasture of Plants. 5. Of Dung. 6. Of Tillage. 7. Of Hoing. 8. Of Weeds. 9. Of Turneps. 10. Of Wheat. 11. Of Smuttiness. 12. Of Blight. 13. Of St. Foin. 14. Of Lucerne. 15. Of Change of Species. 16. Of Change of Individuals. 17. Of Plows. 18. Of Drill-Boxes. 19. Of the Turnep-Drill. 20. Of the Ho-Plow, &c. AS Also, A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product, and diminish the common Expence; By the Use of Instruments described in Cuts. The second edition. By Jethro Tull, of Shalborne in the County of Berks, Esq;
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
The useful plants of west tropical Africa / H. M. Burkill.
Burkill, H. M.Date: 1985-